Music Video Analysis - Teenage Dirtbag

In the start of the music video 'Teenage Dirtbag', they make everyone's character clear on who they are and who the dirtbag is, as at the beginning he's falling asleep on the stairs, followed by a scene where he's riding a bike to school alone; also they try to make him look like the odd one out of the whole school, as the bike shed only has his and a little girls pink bike there.


Right after this the song starts with the lyrics 'Her name is Noelle', and as the artist sings those lyrics a girl gets out of the car which just ran his bike over, they make it obvious on how he likes her because as she walks past him he continues to stare at her. As well as picking out the two main characters, they state her current boyfriend who is a bully, who clearly picks on the 'dirtbag' as well as everybody else in the music video, they state him by saying how her boyfriend is a 'dick' and how he brings a gun to school, as they do a long shot showing him at the front of a group of boys, which states he must be a ring leader, walks past the dirtbag and states that basically the bully doesn't care about him and barges him to the floor.

In one of the scenes it lunch time and the dirtbag is sitting at 'the loser table', standing across from the table is Noelle, her boyfriend and his friends, the dirtbag is nice enough to wave back whereas they throw something at him, Noelle clearly feels sorry for him and leaves her current boyfriend.
The next night is prom night, and the lyrics state on how terrible and unwanted he feels by saying how he feels like 'mould', then out of the blue he notices that Noelle is walking over to him, the lyrics state how it must be fake, as he thought something like this would never happen; then she comes out with taking him to see Iron Maiden with her, which is in the main chorus where he wants to take her, and she also states how shes just like him.

Throughout the chorus they state that she doesn't know what she's missing, which may be inferring he can give her all she wants, yet, it is all spoiled as it's all just a dream, when the artist says 'this must be fake', it was.



By Danniella Chapman

Past Students Work Analysis

As we are doing a music video on Wheatus 'Teenage Dirtbag', I decided to look at some previous music videos that other media students had created using this song. When searching for the previous videos I came across three different videos that had used some good ideas, the whole thing wasn't good but parts of them they used good ideas, in one of them they have the use of one of them being behind a microphone being the singer while also being the teenage dirtbag, which I thought was a good idea as this states who the dirtbag is. I also like the fact that how they used the setting of the video inside a school, as some others didn't, yet others played the role of a dirtbag really well, for instance she waved and the dirtbag thought it was him she was waving at and turned out to be waving to her boyfriend.

By Danniella Chapman

Directors Rearch - Director X

Directors Research – Pop

Director X

Director X is a famous music video, who has directed several music videos for some of the biggest names within Pop. He’s been making music videos as early as 1998 to the present day. Most of his artists are from pop or from R’N’B. Along with directing, he also…

·         Has his own fashion line
·         Discovered Hip Hop Model Melyssa Ford and helped her to start her modelling career.
·         Was due to direct a vampire movie, but was cancelled.
·         Was a visual consultant to the film ‘Belly’
In 2015 he opened his own Production Company Creative Soul, which is in Canada, Toronto.

Trademarks
His trademark in music videos is how he open and closes the music videos, he uses the letterbox technique however instead black bars on the top and bottom of the image, he instead uses the letterbox technique by opening the image vertically or horizontally to reveal the video and closing vertically or horizontally at the end.

He’s worked with artists such as..
·         The Wanted ‘Chasing The Sun’
·         Justin Bieber ‘Boyfriend’
·         Rhianna ‘ft. Drake (Work)’
·         Little Mix ‘ft. Sean Paul (Hair)’
·         Drake ‘Hotline Bling’
·         Iggy Azalea ‘ft. Charlie XCX (Fancy)’
·         Drake ‘Started From The Bottom’
·         Iggy Azalea ‘ft. Rita Ora (Black Widow)
·          Fifth Harmony ‘ft. Ty Dollar $ign (Work From Home)’
·          Sean Paul ‘Temperature’’
·         Usher ‘You Got it Bad’

By Danniella Chapman

Wheatus

Wheatus do a range of types of music videos, like using Lego people to create a music video for the song 'Only You'; its like they try their best to stand out more than every other band by doing something different. In the song 'Wannabe Gangster' they use an Alien going through a story-line that the Alien wants to be a gangster, so within this video they use gangster like outfits to fit in with the title, like bandannas and baggy clothes. In their music videos they match the song lyrics in throughout the music video; their biggest hit being 'Teenage Dirt Bag' they made the song from the idea of the film, and used parts of the film to put into their music video so that the audience can see the difference between people and how they can be treated from who they are and how they act. To help the music video become more popular and likeable they decided to have the use of school corridors, school hall and the stage at the prom so it matches the whole school themed song. Wheatus show a lot of differences in all their videos, they try being different to every other band by wearing funky outfits, for instance in the 'Wannabe Gangster' music video they're all dressed in white in an Alien spaceship that is also all white, which may show purity, but as well as white trousers and top, the band leader wears a fluffy white hat, and baggy clothes which infers scruffiness. Initially the band are trying their best to stand out and be a different style of band that people would draw attention to, their songs probably help out some of the people with how they want to be like 'Teenage Dirt Bag'.

By Megan Birch

Magazine advert and CD cover comparisons

 I will be analysing the difference between the adverts in a magazine article of an artist’s album and the actual artists CD cover. The artist that I have chosen to do this comparison on is Ed Sheeran and his album ‘+’.

The magazine advert as shown to the right is a very simple advert that is seen in a magazine, it contains a picture of the Ed Sheeran showing that it’s his album; the advert also contains the album name and Ed Sheeran’s bestselling songs at the time of the album’s release, as well as a quote referencing a review on the album by a magazine company.

The actual album cover, clearly shown on the left is almost similar to the magazine advert as it features a picture of the artist ed Sheeran along with his name and the small dog paw next to it which is hard to see on the magazine advert. In addition to this, like the magazine advert the ‘+’ sign is shown which replaces the need for a name for the album.




Nathan Gilbert

Meeting Minutes - 3/11/16

Researching Other Song Ideas

Researching other songs...

Teenage Dirtbag - Performed by Wheatus, this song has been a fundamental step for those in the pop punk industry, it features famous actors such as Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari, both famous for their rolls in the film American Pie. When analysing the lyrics we really enjoyed this song as it was a song a lot of people knew and still sang today. Even though it wasn't fast paced we liked the different narratives that we were able to create with it and thought that it would a fun and enjoyable music video to create, however we would need to look more into the song itself.

In Too Deep - This song is one of my favourites due to the different scenarios that you can build with it, its fast paced and can even have a hidden meaning within the song itself, so when looking at the music video you can see different narratives. While we like this song, we feel that we wouldn't be able to use it for a music video due to having a low budget and the low complexity of what we would be able to do with the music video.

All The Small Things - All the small things is one of my favourite songs and i feel this would be a great song to use for our A2 music video. Its fast paced and has a great ming with lyrics including 'Say it aint so, i will not go,' and 'Always, i know, you'll be at my show,' with this song there are a lot of ideas that we can look at and follow through with. Pop Punk also allows us to be rebellious against the stereotypes that pop puts on its artists and their music videos, so by using this song it could encourage us to challenge ourselves,

By Danniella Chapman